The subsequent Battlefield guarantees a return to the Name of Responsibility competitor’s “core” after 2021’s futuristic sequel drove many longtime followers away. The person in cost, longtime Respawn head Vince Zampella, cites Battlefield 3 and 4 as the height of the sequence that the at present untitled Battlefield 6 can be chasing.
“I imply, in case you look again to the height or the top of Battlefield, it’s that Battlefield 3…Battlefield 4 period the place every part was fashionable,” he mentioned in a new interview with IGN. “And I feel we have now to get again to the core of what Battlefield is and try this amazingly nicely, after which we’ll see the place it goes from there.”
Zampella, who was the top of Infinity Ward again when Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Conflict 1 and 2 exploded, listed a couple of options gamers can anticipate from the subsequent recreation, and most of them sound like reactions to what folks didn’t like about Battlefield 2042. Along with being set within the present day, the subsequent Battlefield will ditch 128-player maps for 64 participant ones, and transfer again to plain class loadouts relatively than customized specialists which have extra of a hero shooter really feel about them with their distinctive perks.
“So I wasn’t there for 2042,” he instructed IGN. “I don’t know what the rationale was, however for me, it’s just like the staff tried one thing new. It’s a must to applaud that effort. Not everyone appreciated it, however you bought to strive issues. It didn’t work. It didn’t match. Specialist won’t be coming again. So lessons are sort of on the core of Battlefield, and we’re going again to that.”
There’s nonetheless no set launch date for the subsequent Battlefield, which I’m going to maintain calling Battlefield 6 till EA declares in any other case. Zampella hinted at a neighborhood testing program coming in 2025 for the sport, but it surely’s nonetheless not clear precisely what’s going to return the sequence to the juggernaut it as soon as was. Earlier this 12 months, EA introduced a Battlefield universe that sounded rather a lot just like the sequel-spanning microtransaction machine that’s Name of Responsibility: Warzone.
Battlefields used to come back out roughly each two years. No Battlefield in 2025 would put the subsequent recreation on the sequence’ longest growth timeline in over a decade. “The core Battlefield gamers know what they need,” Zampella mentioned. “They’ve been with us endlessly, they’ve been superb supporters. We have to earn their belief again and get them again on our facet. After which it’s increasing out and getting extra gamers into the universe and seeing what we are able to do, so if you need a totally different expertise, you don’t have to depart Battlefield.”